Latest World Rankings! The Chinese women's volleyball team fell in the rankings! When the unfavorable news came, the Japanese women's volleyball team points gap narrowed significantly.
At 4:30 on May 18, at the Brazilian station of the World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team played against Canada and ushered in a relatively strong opponent. In the previous 2 rounds, the Chinese team first faced South Korea, which was not strong, and then faced the American women's volleyball team, which was not the strongest in the lineup, and won 2 consecutive victories and gained a lot of confidence. Canada also has a big competitive goal, so it's going all out.
Cai Bin continued to use the previous starting lineup, but the overall performance was not very good, and he lost with a score of 22-25 and swallowed the opening black. In the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team strengthened its offense and tandem, Wu Mengjie was in excellent condition, Wang Mengjie was in good shape, and the Chinese team quickly responded with a score of 25-20.
In the third game, the Chinese team once again had old problems, the defense was not in place, and the offense was not so powerful, and unfortunately lost another game with a score of 23-25, which was very unfavorable. Fans sighed one after another, there is no pass, why not send Wang Yunrui to come off the bench to ensure a pass. Why do you bring so many setters?
At the beginning of the fourth game, Cai Bin was replaced, Zhang Changning started, and his partner Li Yingying looked forward to good luck. The Chinese women's volleyball team strengthened its rhythm, Gong Xiangyu continued to give strength, and the Chinese women's volleyball team blocked the net extremely well. A wave of streams widened the difference, and the score came to 18-12!
Canada continued to chase points, and the end of the game became white-hot again! Canada scored on offense, then Van Rijk served and scored straight to level 20-20! Then Van Rijk continued to serve and scored 21-20! The Chinese team has reached a difficult node, and a pass must be withstanded. Van Rijk helped the team counterattack 25-22 and won the game, with a big score of 3-1!
The Chinese women's volleyball team lost for the first time, losing 11.01 points and falling to seventh place in the world with 328.7 points, only 5.5 points more than eighth place Japan. The instant ranking dropped to 7th.